A week after the murder of George Floyd, Richmond police tear-gassed peaceful protesters at the Robert E. Lee monument.
I have changed my mind about a matter. That may be too strong, for I may be missing something here — maybe something obvious, maybe something important. So better said: I am cautiously reconsidering an attitude I have had.
As a 38-year veteran of the commercial real estate business, I have learned a few things about real estate. One of them is to be wary of opinions of real estate values based on rules of thumb and broad assumptions. I think there is some muddled thinking about determining property values for …
Connections between Waco and Los Angeles were surprisingly intertwined last month when I visited California for the last matinee of “Ann,” the theatrical homage to late Texas Gov. Ann Richards. As most know, Richards was a Lacy Lakeview native when it was simply Lakeview, with no lake or vie…
To the Honorable Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States:
Richard Alley, a professor of geosciences at Penn State University, joins host Lawrence Eppard to help us understand the collapse of the Conger Ice Shelf in East Antarctica and its implications. Plus: Climate Investing with Zach Stein from the Carbon Collective!
I realize that national commentator S.E. Cupp [“Settled law vs. political whims,” May 6 Tribune-Herald] is not a constitutional lawyer, as most of us are not. Nor at one time were John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison or George Washingto…
In this month’s Better Homes and Gardens, readers were treated to a lovely interview with British singer and actor Harry Styles — shot neither at his home nor garden, but nevertheless very revealing.
Anthony Fauci has been the public face of public health throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Several recent pronouncements suggest that he has something in common with Gen. Douglas MacArthur — and this commonality is not a good thing. Fauci, it seems, shares MacArthur’s belief that technical ex…
The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a passionate advocate for abortion rights, but she was also one of Roe v. Wade’s most effective critics. “My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum on the side of change,” she said, explaining that abortion right…
Episode 38: Richard Kyte and Scott Rada also discuss the similarities between Florida's so-called Don't-Say-Gay law and a high school football coach who wants to pray with his players.
Commentary: The biggest decisions we make in life are whether to say “yes” or “no” to new opportunities.
"If the court is stripping away rights, why would it stop at a woman's body autonomy?"
Since someone leaked a draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion in this year’s big abortion case, two questions have emerged about the scope of conservative policy goals. Will Republicans try to ban abortion by federal statute if Roe v. Wade is overruled, or leave the issue to the states? And wi…
Did the fire at the end of Walt Disney’s iconic animated movie “Bambi” prejudice the country against forest management with controlled burning? Maybe so.
When I learned of an early draft of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion on the future of abortion as a constitutional right surfacing on Politico last week, I balked as a skeptical journalist out of concern for its being a fake. However, when I finally chanced a look at the first 20…
This past Tuesday, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Roberts confirmed that a leaked draft opinion in a pending case was authentic. That opinion was in what will probably be a case of once-in-a-generation importance: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which addresses a …
Awed at the Ukrainians’ courage?
While I was serving as a Southern Baptist journeyman missionary in Kenya in 1978, Daniel arap Moi was elected president. Soon after he came into office, I had an encounter with the president while attending the annual Nairobi Agricultural Show. Moi, in an open-top land rover with armed soldi…
Vicki Spriggs: Feds set money aside for foster youth, but it can’t help them if they can’t access it
Imagine if you were a young adult who struggled to pay for basic necessities such as your cell phone, food, clothes and rent — and you had no parents to help out. Now imagine that the government set aside money to help you pay for those necessities, but finding out how to get it was difficul…
Elections have consequences, they say.
The leaked draft of a majority Supreme Court decision by Justice Samuel Alito overturning Roe v. Wade means several things. First, it indicates that in the justices’ private conference, at least five members of the court voted to reverse the 1973 abortion precedent. They aren’t bound by that…
“What is the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?” the president of the United States asked 10 years ago at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. “A pit bull is delicious.”
"If Black lives truly matter, we need to look askance at cigarettes, which disproportionately kill Black people."